Between 1917 and 1923 Milhaud wrote six “petites symphonies” for between six and ten players (and in one case singers), each lasting between three and six minutes in the composer’s chosen tempi. Four of these are now available in a new disc with the Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago under Barry Faldner, recorded in 1990-91 and […]
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Le Boeuf sur le toit
Milhaud’s great early ballet, Le boeuf sur le toit (1919, scenario by Cocteau), is one of his most protean pieces, with different dissonances and rhythms emerging in each recording. On a Leonard Bernstein recording with the Orchestre National de France (EMI CDC-7 47845 2), the sound is very sleek and glitzy, like a good pops orchestra or Broadway […]
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